New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-28
L.ANSDOWNE'S BAD FAITH.
TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT THAT HE RE-
PUDlAIED.
WILLIAM o'BaIEN's PLAN OF CAMPAIGN AMoN"
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IoNpoS. April 27.-The particulars of the rupt'
ured negotiations concerning Lord Lansdowne
tenants, in consequence of which, as ap-
prised you last night, Mr. Obrien mas re-
newed his determination to visit Canada'
are briefly as follows: Mr.. Denning, bank
manager at Tullamore, acting for Mr.. French. Lord
Lansdowne's agent, met by appointment at Mary
borough last Friday Father Maher. as representa-
tive of the tenants when these heads of agreement
were come to:
Tenants whose rents have been revised In the
land courts and who had been refused
anv abatement were to be content with
fifteen per cent abatement instead of the twenty
demanded. Tenants whose rents had not not been
revised were to be contentAd with twenty per cent
instead of the thirty demanded All evicted tenants
were to be reinstaed repayment Of one halfyears
rent. less abatement No costs were to be borne
BY the tenants. The leaseholders were to have
their leases broken and to be at liberty to enter the
land court.
Mr. Denning took this agreement to Mr..
French ana Father Maher took 1t to the ten
ants for confirmation. On Saturday Father
Maher and Mr. O'Brien teleeraphed
Denning saying that the tencnts accepted the
terms and asking if they might consider TINS con-
elusive. No reply was received to this on satur-
day. Sunday also passed without reply. The
evicted tenants had taken passage had left Queens
town.
At last on Monday evening, after peremptory
telegram from Father Maher MI Denning replied
in letter which amounted to an insolent repudia-
tion of the whole agreement Mr.. OBrien accounts
for this peridious right-about-face by the fact
that on Saturday and Monday Lord Lansdowne
felt himself fortified by the expressions
of op,nion into which Archbishop Lynch and GER
tain Irish Canadian politicians were betrayed on
the strength, doubtless, of caumnous misrepresen-
tatons of the object and spirit of his mission to
Canada Mr.. O'Brien says:
81 am heartily glad of the delay. 1t
has enabled US to show that we
have exhausted every effort to bring about an
honorable peace. Irish Canadian statesmen Will
also derive useful light as to the base use to
which their uulucky declarations have been
put when they learn that the agreement
which would have reknded every
hearth in Luggacurren on honorable and
happy conditions was cast to the winds on the
very morrow of their innocent and unlnformed
utterances. I shall appeal to the honest masses
OF our race and of every race III Canada
to choose sides between Lord Lansdowne and the
peaceful tenantry whom he seeks to exterminate by
q system of cIearances as odiOusiy unlu and IN
human as those which filled the pest-houses OF the
ST. Lawrence with dying Irish victims In the days
of the great famine and l sh Ill appeal to them
with all the more confidence now that
they are called upon to pronounce not
only upon heartess system OF eviction carried out
with Canadian money, but upon an act of brazen
perfdy committed on the strength of assumed
Canadian sympathy"
1t NAV not be out of place to mention
that IN an article referring to MIR.
OBnen to-day, The Pail Mall Gasctfe uses
the following expression: I'VE have the privi-
lege for it is privilege and the honor for It is an
honor, of the personal friendship OF Mr. WIllIam
OBrien." l. L. GILL, NJ L.